"An essential read for understanding how conservative critiques of journalism became a political strategy, an identity marker, and a driver of media innovation." Alice E. Marwick on MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by A.J. Bauer bit.ly/4rCFrdH @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

This is my favorite part. Because the answer is one of the book's core interventions. The answer? Yes, both.

"[A] compelling contribution...shows how a sustained critique of liberal media bias provided coherency to the conservative movement." MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA, by A. J. Bauer reviewed in *Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly* tinyurl.com/4xp9zcra @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Congratulations to Christopher T. Fan, whose book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @chrisfan.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Congratulations to Shameem Black, whose book, FLEXIBLE INDIA: YOGA'S CULTURAL & POLITICAL TENSIONS is an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies. tinyurl.com/4bwnz8na @columbiaup.bsky.social

This Sunday (3/1) at 5 pm, The Poetic Research Bureau presents a reading for Jennifer Scappettone's new book POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM at 2200 Arts & Archives in LA. bit.ly/4rzVNnd @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Explore how the end of slavery coincided with the rise of the asylum. In COLORED INSANE, Diana Martha Louis reveals how psychiatry racialized mental illness—and how Black thinkers challenged those narratives. Read more in this Q&A. buff.ly/n5eKzov #BlackHistoryMonth #ColoredInsane #BlackMentalHealth

Now available! MAKING THE LIBERAL MEDIA: HOW CONSERVATIVES BUILT A MOVEMENT AGAINST THE PRESS, by A.J. Bauer. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4rCFrdH @ajbauer.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Our monthly newsletter just went out. And because humans, committed and overcommitted humans do our homework the newsletter which goes out on February 23 can have "January" in its subject line. Check out what we have been up to and what is coming! tinyurl.com/53tanrns

For those interested in learning more about the films of Frederick Wiseman: VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY: THE CINEMA OF FREDERICK WISEMAN, by Barry Keith Grant. bit.ly/46mDWYz @columbiaup.bsky.social

Trump's EPA wants us to cover our eyes.! 🦋 www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

We are pleased to announce that Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward’s THE RISE OF PACIFIC LITERATURE has been named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews and Choice Magazine. buff.ly/op1VhAu @choicereviews.bsky.social

In this Q&A, Cisco Bradley discusses what drew him to free jazz, how oral history anchors the book, and why the Great Migration and Black freedom movements are essential to understanding the music. buff.ly/4l9HbZh #BHM #FreeJazz #JazzHistory #BlackMusic #GreatMigration @aaads-iraascu.bsky.social

Check out Mohammed Muharram's review of Sarah Dimick's "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures," published in 2024 by @columbiaup.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #ecocrit #climate #envhist www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

BOOK NEWS The entwined relationship of movement and writing for Black women authors *The Souths in Her* by Nicole M. Morris Johnson Recent release from @columbiaup.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMonth #books #AcademicSky journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2026/02/book...

In an interview w/ @africasacountry.bsky.social, Ainehi Edoro discusses her new book, FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK and how indigenous storytelling and cosmology expands what the novel can do. bit.ly/4rRlY8A @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

What happens when we stop reading African fiction through European literary history and instead trace its worldmaking through indigenous cosmology? africasacountry.com/2026/02/the-...

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵 academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

In Episode 775, @jackewilson.bsky.social talks to author Sarah Allison (The Rise of Celebrity Authorship) about the creation of literary celebrity from the nineteenth century's pop culture print forms, including antislavery writing. #books #authorship @columbiaup.bsky.social

Thrilled to see a few @columbiaup.bsky.social books on this list!

“Brooks’s film weighs the promises of emancipation against the persistence of heterosexual norms and delivers a crushing verdict.” Erika Balsom on Looking for Mr. Goodbar in 4 Columns. Her book, EDGES OF CINEMA, comes out this Fall from @columbiaup.bsky.social. bit.ly/4s5SeVZ @erikaaaa.bsky.social

Very excited to announce my first book 🪄 Film Diplomacy 📽️ is forthcoming with @columbiaup.bsky.social.

I got angry and sad enough about the destruction of the Washington Post in general and its superb book coverage in particular to write this praisesong in remembrance of the Sunday supplement "Book World," a longtime fixture of American book criticism. lithub.com/in-praise-of...

Q&A: The "Catastrophe" of Campus Censorship open.substack.com/pub/collegew...

Congratulations to Maggie Hennefeld, whose book DEATH BY LAUGHTER has been awarded the 2025 Limina Prize for "Best International Book in Film Studies" by the Italian University Cinema Council and the editorial board of Cinéma & Cie. bit.ly/4aIHgzx @hennefem.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"An insightful addition to ... recent literature on the tenuous status of journalists, particularly in an insecure modern democracy." An excellent review of MEXICO'S RESILIENT JOURNALISTS, by Julieta Brambila, in *Journalism History.* bit.ly/4acN44o @columbiaup.bsky.social

Afterlives of the Plantation: An Interview with Jarvis C. McInnis www.aaihs.org/afterlives-o...

MJHA is delighted to announce that the 2026 F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize has been awarded to Anri Yasuda (University of Virginia) for "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890–1930" (Columbia University Press, 2024)!

Super honored that "Death by Laughter" has been awarded the 2025 Limina Prize for "Best International Book in Film Studies"!!! Thanks be to the Italian University Cinema Council & editorial board of Cinéma & Cie. 🎞️❤️ @columbiaup.bsky.social www.consultacinema.org/2026/02/09/p...

BROOKLYN BOHEME IS BACK! Neslson George's excellent documentary on the Black arts scene in '80s and '90s in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. open.substack.com/pub/nelsonge...

With its reporting on ICE raids and foreign wars, Amjambo Africa aims to build a more inclusive community. Eloge Willy Kaneza speaks with Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!

Robert Gober, Hope Hill Road, 1975 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137556

Books for Understanding ICE in Minnesota: a curated list of titles to aid in understanding the profound and disturbing events that have so deeply affected our communities. www.upress.umn.edu/books-for-un...

In this Off the Page episode, host Miranda Melcher and coauthors Martin Moore and Thomas Colley discuss DICTATING REALITY. buff.ly/nj8zviK @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

Congratulations to Ainehi Edoro, author of the just-published FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK, on being named a keynote thinker for the 2026 African Literature Association conference. bit.ly/4qQSN5y @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Now available! CULTURAL MAVERICKS takes readers inside the world of independent bookselling in China. Drawing on more than a decade of immersive research, Zheng Liu unveils how these bookstores carve out a unique identity and market position. buff.ly/G6Pr91c #IndieBookStores #China #Bookstores

For this week’s Silent Sundays I spoke with professor and programmer @hennefem.bsky.social about her work in silent film, and why the era still speaks to us today.

"When I go to the movies, I expect to tango with ghosts. Undead, reborn, vengeful, soulful, flickering, uncanny – beautiful ghosts..." Maggie Hennefeld introduces her favourite cinematic experiences of 2025, now in Part 4 of our World Poll. buff.ly/zEucoDQ

"Reading Mendelson’s THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY transformed a story I thought I knew." The *Columbia Daily Spectator* talks to Edward Mendelson abour his new book on Virginia Woolf and his approach to literature and teaching. bit.ly/49VkjJl @columbiaup.bsky.social

very grateful to The Quietus for publishing this essay- on everyday fascism and the promise and problem of “beauty” as an inadequate but therapeutic response to the ugliness of the present - plus there are some thoughts on disco and Patricia Highsmith- this felt like a risk but I’m glad it’s out

The arrests of Lemon and Fort are intended to deter journalists from doing work we need them to do, and that the First Amendment was meant to protect. DOJ should drop these prosecutions or the courts should throw them out. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

MJHA is delighted to announce that the 2026 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize has been awarded to Simon Partner (Duke University) for "Koume's World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman Before and After the Meiji Restoration" (Columbia University Press, 2024)!

"[A] profound, deeply moving study ... full of stimulating perceptions." The Virginia Woolf Bulletin reviews THE INNER LIFE OF MRS. DALLOWAY, by Edward Mendelson. Use the coupon code MLA and save 30% on the book! bit.ly/43tcDu2 @columbiaup.bsky.social

Courageous reporting from Minnesota and Iran. Plus: tone-deafness at the Tribune; spit hoods in Seattle. This week’s Laurels and Darts by @banikarim.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

It’s been a busy day for AB&IA. Not only did I release a new episode, but I also recorded an interview. The new interview: Katherine Fusco, author of Hollywood’s Others: Love & Limitation In The Star System. Watch this space for info. @columbiaup.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social

From Minneapolis to Gaza, how does the press responsibly report killings when officials act in obvious bad faith? By looking out the window. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Thanks @dwhdaily.bsky.social for the SHOUT-OUT to B. Geetha's fab review of 'Death by Laughter' in the January books round-up for @criterion.bsky.social ‼️‼️ (lots of irresistible reading recs here... 📚🎞️) www.criterion.com/current/post...